Interview

Mike IX Williams addresses Senator Jason Rapert’s remarks regarding Eyehategod’s show in Little Rock, AR and discusses censorship in music.

Current Vio-lence and former Machine Head guitarist Phil Demmel talks reunion, the possibility of future shows and why Robb Flynn isn’t involved this time.

Swedish journalist Ika Johannesson talks her fantastic and enlightening new cultural history Blood Fire Death: The Swedish Metal Story.

All That Remains frontman Phil Labonte discusses the passing of guitarist Oli Herbert and ninth album Victims of the New Disease, plus touring the US and Europe.

We catch up with our friend behind Obscure Transmissions for the details on his latest work of interstellar dark ambient, plus a full stream of Volume 2.

From the Vastland is making some of the best black metal out there. Check out our interview catching up with Sina, the band’s founder and chief songwriter!

Sandra Vungi chats with Decibel about veganism, death metal and more in a new interview.

A few weeks ago, we briefly introduced you to new doom-death brightlights, Pulchra Morte. Check out our full interview with the band.

Denver death metal mind-melters Noctambulist spawn nightmares on their Atmospheres of Desolation debut.

Photographer Alyssa Herrman discusses her new YOB photo book.

Watch Mastiff‘s new video for “Vermin” right now.

Portrayal of Guilt ended 2018 with a bang, celebrating the release of Let Pain Be Your Guide. Read a new interview with the band.

OSDM crushers Brutality discuss new music, re-recordings and being a totally-independent band.

Brainoil reflect on Singularity to Extinction, their first album in seven years.

Rounding out our Bazillion Points tenth anniversary celebration, get to know Daniel Ekeroth, the unquestionable authority on all things Swedish Death Metal.

The prolific Matron Thorn of Ævangelist released six records in 2018 after a nearly-fatal medical emergency, and shows no signs of stopping.

Bazillion Points head honcho Ian Christe is interviewed.

Decibel’s Albert Mudrian discusses writing (and re-writing) Choosing Death and working with Bazillion Points for most of the past decade.

Norwegian prog nuts discuss their most consistent album ever.

Check out an in-depth interview with Lepidus Plague, the sole madman behind the Australian black metal band Kommodus, and stream their third demonstration, From The Ashes Of Empire.

Noisem are back and ready to decimate.

Being a small black metal label in 2018 is a rough existence, as the market is so flooded. But somehow Death Kvlt has found a way to do it well.

Continuing our Bazillion Points tenth anniversary celebration, get to know lifelong metalhead demophile Bob Plante, who’s been working for years on his book, Demolition, an exhaustive encyclopedia compiling extreme metal demos from the ‘80s.

Mule Skinner discuss their first full-length in over 20 years.

ex-Chimaira frontman Mark Hunter tackles mental illness in new short film Down Again.

We summon Philadelphia’s Devil Master and stream their remastered compilation album, Manifestations, out this Friday on Relapse.

Vouna discusses working with Wolves in the Throne Room to release her first LP and streams the opening track, “A Place to Rest.”

Norwegian post-black metal outfit Sylvaine premieres dreamy new album, “Atoms Aligned, Coming Undone,” on Decibel.

“That pressure is always there when writing a new album. It’s pressure that’s self-imposed… I would be VERY alarmed if that concern melted away.”

Cognitive trade brutality for diversity on Matricide.